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Ocular and extraocular expression of opsins in the rhopalium of Tripedalia cystophora (Cnidaria: Cubozoa).
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- Expression of Opsins of the Box JellyfishFrontiers in neuroanatomy · 2022Article
- Discovery of a body-wide photosensory array that matures in an adult-like animal and mediates eye-brain-independent movement and arousal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Photoreceptor Diversification Accompanies the Evolution of Anthozoa.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Molecular evolution and expression of opsin genes in Hydra vulgaris.BMC genomics · 2019Article
- De novo transcriptome assembly of the cubomedusa Tripedalia cystophora, including the analysis of a set of genes involved in peptidergic neurotransmission.BMC genomics · 2019Article
- Whole-body photoreceptor networks are independent of 'lenses' in brittle stars.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- The enigmatic xenopsins.eLife · 2017Article
- Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia.eLife · 2017Article
- The Last Common Ancestor of Most Bilaterian Animals Possessed at Least Nine Opsins.Genome biology and evolution · 2016Article
- A new transcriptome and transcriptome profiling of adult and larval tissue in the box jellyfish Alatina alata: an emerging model for studying venom, vision and sex.BMC genomics · 2016Article
- Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms.BMC bioinformatics · 2014Article
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Abstract
A growing body of work on the neuroethology of cubozoans is based largely on the capabilities of the photoreceptive tissues, and it is important to determine the molecular basis of their light sensitivity. The cubozoans rely on 24 special purpose eyes to extract specific information from a complex visual scene to guide their behavior in the habitat. The lens eyes are the most studied photoreceptive structures, and the phototransduction in the photoreceptor cells is based on light sensitive opsin molecules. Opsins are photosensitive transmembrane proteins associated with photoreceptors in eyes, and the amino acid sequence of the opsins determines the spectral properties of the photoreceptors. Here we show that two distinct opsins (Tripedalia cystophora-lens eye expressed opsin and Tripedalia cystophora-neuropil expressed opsin, or Tc-leo and Tc-neo) are expressed in the Tripedalia cystophora rhopalium. Quantitative PCR determined the level of expression of the two opsins, and we found Tc-leo to have a higher amount of expression than Tc-neo. In situ hybridization located Tc-leo expression in the retinal photoreceptors of the lens eyes where the opsin is involved in image formation. Tc-neo is expressed in a confined part of the neuropil and is probably involved in extraocular light sensation, presumably in relation to diurnal activity.
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